I am running:
PhpED: Version 4.6.3 (Build 4635)
System: Windows Vista Business
Apache: 2.2.3
PHP: 5.2.0

I copied php_dbg.dll-5.2.x from my Phped installation, C:\phped\debugger\server\Win32\x86\, to my php ext directory (C:\php\ext)

I setup php.ini as follows:
(any line with zend has been commented out)
extension=php_dbg.dll-5.2.x

[debugger]
debugger.enabled=on
debugger.profiler_enabled=on
debugger.hosts_allow=localhost
debugger.hosts_deny=ALL
debugger.ports=7869, 10000/16

I get the following output in php info which indicates degguer is installed:
DBG php debugger, version 3.1.9, Copyright 2001, 2006 Dmitri Dmitrienko, http://www.nusphere.com/dbg

But when I select "Run in Debugger" option in PhpED, I get the following error:
"Failed to start debug session (error:2)Please make sure that debugger module is installed for locally running php"

I see no module load errors in apache error logs. Any ideas, anyone?

Your version 4.6.3 is a bit old. I do not know how well it works in Vista

When I first started using PhpEd, I could not get the debugger to work until I specified the full path to the DBG module. The following setting currently works 100% for me (Windows XP, IIS, and PhpEd 5.0.1):


Also worth considering, is running the DBG Wizard. It may just provide the clues you need! See http://www.nusphere.com/products/dbg_wizard_download.htm for more information.

Good luck

try with external browser and check what it shows.

I'm getting the same problem using version 4.6. I have XP with Apache 2.2.6 and PHP5.2.4. I installed the dbg tool and received the following error message: Failed to run DBG session

Reason: client ip address [(null)] lookup failed
Does anyone know where I need to set the client IP address to make this problem go away? thx.

just run phpinfo() and check its output to see if _SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] is set. If not, you're in trouble and should address this issue to php and apache dev teams, see http://bugs.php.net and http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html
BTW, this problem did never happen under Apache 2.2.3 and earlier versions.

What other issues can cause this ? I have been using the debugger fine for some time now on apache 1.3.x, but I now need to develop against apache 2.2.x and am seeing this problem. So far, I have been using php 5.2.5 and have tried with apache versions 2.0, s.3 and 2.6 on both windows and linux (I need to test on both platforms) and I always get this error.

I have checked with phpinfo(); and it always shows the correct value for the _SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] variable, but for some reason, dbg.so cannot see that value.

Currently, the debug client is running on windows vista 32 bit with all the latest updates (though I think the problem is in the bdg module, not the client). If required, I can provide access to a system that exhibits this problem for you to debug. The linux server is running Centos 5 in a Xen virtual machine (if that matters) on a static real internet IP (ie. not NAT'd) and apache was installed / configured by cpanels easyapache.

Thanks for any pointers. I also have a copy of komodo that I used to use for development and when I try that using the xdebug module, everything works perfectly. But I really want to use the debugger built into phped as it is a much better debugger (when it works). Oh, and I'm using the latest version of phped and dbg.

Thanks for any pointers.

Martin

*EDIT*
Never mind, I found the problem. For some reason, firefox updated and screwed the settings in the toolbar. I had to set the clienthost setting correctly (which I don't think I've used in the past). That'll teach me to rely on the toolbar too much.